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Mono 0.30 Released

Posted by michael on from the still-a-terrible-name dept.

Blair16 writes "From OSNews -- Mono 0.30 has been released. This release includes four components at once: the Runtime and Software Development Kit, the Documentation browser, and the ASP.NET server with its Apache module. Packages for various distributions are also available from our download page. This is mostly a fine-tuning release: bug fixing and performance improvements are the major benefits, but new classes and new features are also included. See the rest of the notes for details."

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  1. Re:Meanwhile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're slow because they're still adding all of the bugs that VS.Net has already.

  2. We're not worthy! by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought I had Mono once for an entire year, turns out I was just really bored.

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  3. Re:I can see the ad campaign now... by br0ck · · Score: 4, Funny

    You laugh.

  4. Re:I can see the ad campaign now... by MBoffin · · Score: 4, Informative
    You would that instead of perpetually being behind Microsoft in the current state of the libraries, that we would develop a completely new set of libraries. That way we aren't always playing catch up to what will ultimately be a windows only set of libraries.

    The Mono project is developing its own set of libraries. Read Question #1 of the Mono FAQ. This is why I support the Mono project. It's not just following in the footsteps of Microsoft. It's taking a good idea and pushing it beyond where Microsoft may or may not choose to take it.
  5. Re:I can see the ad campaign now... by Directrix1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored by Ximian that is working to develop an open source, Unix version of the Microsoft .NET development platform.

    They may develop independant libraries, but the core of it is just implementing Microsoft's .NET platform which is the core library. They will always be catching up in that initiative, and they might as well just develop a completely new base of libraries.

    --
    Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
  6. Re:monoculture? by ajagci · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Look in the FAQ. "Mono" means "monkey" in Spanish. Presumably, it's because of Miguel's heritage and the Ximian sponsorship.

    Because of the associations in English (mono-nucleosis, mono-poly, mono-aural) it was not such a great choice.

  7. It's useful independently... think Gtk# by r6144 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It is already quite comfortable to write Gtk/Gnome programs with Mono. Great for those finding Gtk programs in C too verbose or manual free'ing too cumbersome.

    The only thing holding me back is the debugger which did not work well last time I tried (just usable, frequent lockups). Seems that it has been fixed, I'll give it a try...

  8. Re:Can someone explain it all to me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    mint - interpreter which is easier to port to different architectures but slower than mono

    mono - JIT runtime (faster than mint)

    monodis - disassembles assemblies (.exe and .dll) to CIL bytecode

    mcs - C# compiler

    example:
    mcs file.cs -o file.exe
    mono file.exe

  9. Re:monoculture? by hitchhacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Mono" means "monkey" in Spanish. Presumably, it's because of Miguel's heritage..

    Damn, dude. That's harsh..
    I suppose Miguel should just climb back up the tree he came from.. ;)

    -metric